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Saturday, January 10, 2015

STEAM activity: Analyzing country music

One way to integrate science and music is a comparative analysis of the "formulas" by which songs are assembled.



The danger of this particular analysis is, of course, that researchers can lose a whole IQ point for each five minutes of exposure to country music.

More here:

http://www.npr.org/2015/01/09/376145745/you-know-exactly-what-these-six-country-songs-have-in-common?
    or here
http://dangerousminds.net/comments/video_demonstrates_how_mind-numbingly_formulaic_and_shitty_country_pop_musi

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